In our future 5G world, your users will not only need to be connected all the time, they will also require access to fast, agile services. The question is: Will your network be ready to support multiple best-in-class wired and wireless access technologies?

“Technology Convergence: Support Multiple Wired and Wireless Access Technologies” explores how virtualization allows for a converged access platform that simplifies management of your access network and lowers your overall system total cost of ownership. The webinar walks you through a working proof of concept developed by Intel, Casa Systems, and Kyrio that brings together vCCAP, vWAG, vEPC, and other VNFs running within an open-source NFVI. Addressed as well is how this solution can be expanded for other operator needs through flexible and generalized SDN/NFV principles.

The Intel® Ethernet 700 Series was designed from the ground up to provide increased flexibility and move to a programmable pipeline allowing it to be customized to meet a wide variety of customer requirements.
To address this, a new capability has been enabled on the Intel Ethernet 700 Series network adapters: Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP). DDP allows a DPDK application to enable identification of new protocols, for example, GTP, PPPoE, QUIC, without changing the hardware. This session will provide details on how to take advantage of this new capability and a live demo will showcase a DPDK application identifying and spreading GTP and QUIC across multiple CPU cores.

More details about Dynamic Device Personalization can be found on the Intel Developer Zone site:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/dynamic-device-personalization-for-intel-ethernet-700-series

This webinar will bring you the practical and technical insights providing an overall approach to testing & validation of SDN and NFV based networks across different scenarios. We will focus on the key challenges, implementations and showcase how Happiest Minds uses modern day best practices to architect an integrated testing approach for creating validated systems based on Intel and other open technologies to power enterprises or telco clouds and help realize the maximum potential of Network Virtualization.

This webinar, while showcasing Happiest Minds Testing capabilities, would also provide us with a great platform to showcase how Intel platforms and other open technologies can be the optimal choice to build network infrastructure, overcome challenges in testing and motivate end customers from the Network Builder group to engage with Intel and other technology partners for solution design and development.

5G brings many new capabilities over 4G including higher bandwidths, lower latencies, and more efficient use of radio spectrum. However, these improvements require a large increase in computing power in the base station. Fortunately the Xeon Scalable Processor series (Skylake-SP) recently introduced by Intel has a new high-performance instruction set called Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) which is capable of delivering the compute needed to support the exciting new world of 5G.

In his talk Daniel will give an overview of the new capabilities of the Intel AVX-512 instruction set and show why they are so beneficial to supporting 5G efficiently. The most obvious difference is that Intel AVX-512 has double the compute performance of previous generations of instruction sets. Perhaps surprisingly though it is the addition of brand new instructions that can make the biggest improvements. The new instructions mean that software algorithms can become more efficient, thereby enabling even more effective use of the improvements in computing performance and leading to very high performance 5G NR software implementations.

"Every service provider today has investment heavily in physical networking equipment. All their customers are all connected over the legacy network in one way or another. In order to maximize the ROI, there must be a simple and quick way to orchestrate new services using new network functions virtualizations (NFV) technology on top of the old network.

This live demonstration will showcase how this can be done, using the service orchestration, automation and activation capabilities of PacketFront Software’s BECS platform integrated towards an open source platform consisting of OPNFV, OpenDaylight and OpenStack."

Telefónica launched its UNICA program back in 2013. After several years maturing involved technologies and granting the assurance and security aspects, Telefónica started to deploy UNICA in five different countries during 2017. This is just the end of the beginning. UNICA is a live project that needs to evolve to support and guarantee future network needs, providing a way to have Zero Touch operations by automating the end to end life cycle of creating and operating network services along with a smooth evolution towards 5G. ETSI OSM, the Open Source project with the broadest industry support of more than 85 companies is setting down the basis for having a Common Information Model, agnostic to NFVI/VIM technologies, and that is helping to accelerate the availability of solutions for Zero Touch operations.

Most enterprises have already come to the realization that mobile connectivity and capacity can impact productivity and affect their bottom line. Once CIOs enable unlimited mobile capacity and secure connectivity, along with the ability to collect and analyze their network activity, they can improve productivity, increase revenue, and deliver new services and applications to their employees, guests, and customers. But current wireless connectivity solutions do not provide enterprises with sufficient capacity or a satisfying user experience.

In this webinar we will review the different options enterprises have when dealing with this challenge, explain why enterprises need to take ownership of their mobile networks, and how this aligns with the carriers’ current strategy for in-building networks and towards 5G.

With the global network functions virtualization (NFV) market projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 42%, reaching $15.5 billion by 2020, a massive market opportunity exists. To make it easier to design and deploy Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) optimized systems, Intel has developed the new NFVI Server Block. Optimized to deliver exceptional performance for NFVI workloads, these pre-integrated, fully validated server systems reduce the complexity involved in designing and testing for the unique needs of NFVI.

This webinar will cover the key features and benefits of the NFVI Server Block as well as several other NFVI enablement options from Intel. You’ll walk away with actionable guidance on how Intel can help you harness this growing market opportunity.

David Levi, CEO at Ethernity Networks & Ken Dennen, Sr. Director of Business Development for the U.S

For communication server providers (CSPs), Carrier Ethernet (CE) underpins the vast majority of modern services delivered to enterprise and residential customers. As CSPs seek to expand their service offerings from their networking infrastructure base, they need to leverage their CE access networks to seamlessly connect users to Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) applications. The strength of CE service orchestration and service level agreements (SLAs) provides a dynamic, trusted foundation for new revenue generating services. Ethernity Networks’ ACE-NIC 40G Server Adapter integrates field-proven CE services and programmable NFVI acceleration, all optimized to work with Intel servers and DPDK.

With the ever growing cyber threats organizations are facing and the rising adoption of traffic encryption - providing efficient and cost-effective protection is becoming a daunting task. Join us to learn about how you can better protect your organization’s assets throughout trending datacenter evolution.

In this webinar we will learn about:

i. Why SSL visibility is important
ii. What new challenges are we facing in SSL
iii. The importance of performance
iv. SSL in the age of virtualization
v. The impact of the evolving datacenter landscape on SSL requirements

Verizon has announced its universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) offering to “expand the range of choices available to our customers, accelerate the enterprise transformation to cloud based architectures, and increase the agility of organizations to respond to market challenges.” Sounds good, but what does uCPE really mean? How to you implement it to realize the true value of network functions virtualization (NFV)? This webinar will explain what uCPE is, and how Verizon was able to work with their supplier partners to create an open and multi-vendor system for rapid deployment of services. It will also cover some of the challenges the team addressed, as well as the big benefits that Verizon customers are already seeing.

One of the main aims of the NFV-concept is to replace dedicated proprietary network hardware with flexible and scalable software-based solutions. However, all but one of today’s VNF solutions demonstrate benefits in terms of flexibility and scalability, but not the levels of performance that the industry demands.

NFWare, an innovative network software vendor, has risen to meet the challenge by developing virtual networking products to provide hardware-like performance alongside all the benefits of a virtual solutions. NFWare’s product line includes three products: vCGNAT (up to 200 Gbps per VM), vADC (up to 40M CPS per VM) and vURL-Filtering (up to 20M CPS and 100M concurrent sessions per VM).

At the webinar, NFWare will tell more about technologies that allowed to achieve outstanding performance levels, as well as discussing what this new technology means for an industry that is always in search of faster, better ways of working.

Over the past thirty years, not much has changed in the architecture of industrial control systems. During this time, however, there have been fundamental transformations in the world of Information Technology (IT). In this webinar, we explain the business benefits that can be derived by implementing software defined industrial control systems that leverage software-based techniques from the IT industry. We describe a straightforward process for transitioning to this new architecture, managing the risks and reaping the benefits.

5G will bring several groundbreaking new technologies into play with its new air interface and Radio Access Network (RAN) architecture extensions. It will also need an emerging software defined infrastructure, one that provides greater topology flexibility, essential to deliver on the promises of high availability, high coverage, low latency and high bandwidth connections that will open up new parallel industry opportunities.

Edge Cloud unlocks many new doors and one of the keys to its enablement lies in the elasticity and flexibility of the underlying infrastructure. This webinar will discuss several use cases for edge computing along the road to 5G including VR/AR, autonomous cars and IoT, and how Multi-Access Edge Computing solutions allows testing and trials of solutions today.

In our future 5G world, your users will not only need to be connected all the time, they will also require access to fast, agile services. The question is: Will your network be ready to support multiple best-in-class wired and wireless access technologies?

“Technology Convergence: Support Multiple Wired and Wireless Access Technologies” explores how virtualization allows for a converged access platform that simplifies management of your access network and lowers your overall system total cost of ownership. The webinar walks you through a working proof of concept developed by Intel, Casa Systems, and Kyrio that brings together vCCAP, vWAG, vEPC, and other VNFs running within an open-source NFVI. Addressed as well is how this solution can be expanded for other operator needs through flexible and generalized SDN/NFV principles.

This webinar will provide attendees an overview of capabilities of VirNOS virtual network function (VNF) and the use cases. We will cover virtualizing services at the customer edge and how service providers can enable services such as VPN and IPSec to their end customers at lower OPEX. The presenter will also discuss vPE/vRouter running at the data center or cloud providing MPLS WAN services.

Service providers are expanding their NFV offering to the customer premises.
The alternatives range from dedicated appliances , to thin CPE and to Universal Customer Premises Equipment (uCPE).
What are the challenges when building a uCPE?
What are the key elements to look in a uCPE offering?
What should a holistic uCPE solution include?

First glance on an Intel® Atom® C3000 Processor (Formerly Denverton) based uCPE, including initial performance figures using a VNF.

Tactical military systems require a huge amount of computing capability to track and defeat a variety of threats which threaten forward deployed troops. Intel has been supplying high performance processing platforms like the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform for many years. The Navy and other military branches have begun to standardize on systems based on the latest Intel Xeon processors designed into systems from Artesyn Embedded Technologies running Concurrent Real-Time’s Redhawk Real-Time Operating System for a number of major tactical systems. This presentation will show how Intel, Artesyn and Concurrent have worked together to create very dense, high performance, real-time systems used in the most demanding tactical systems.

Webinar attendees with learn why the military has been adopting systems created by Artesyn Embedded Computing based on an open system architecture known as Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture using Intel Xeon processors and running Concurrent Real-Time’s RedHawk Real-Time Linux. This system design fulfills the desire of the military to have a rugged, high performance computing architecture for those tactical applications which require a great deal of processing but is modular, open and flexible.

Next Generation applications like IoT, MBB, AR, VR, V2X, etc. generates wide variety of traffic and with different QoS needs. Today's network is not designed to handled the ever growing varied traffic which chokes the network. Since each of these traffic may have a different QoS needs, one size fit all solution will not work in long run.

Network slicing is one of the key capabilities that enables flexibility which allows service providers to deploy multiple logical netwok on shared physical infrastructure. It also extensively uses the concept of Network function virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) to bundle the virtualized network functions into tailored made logical network to handle varied requirement like low latency network, high bandwidth network, reliability, etc. This optimization helps to monetize the investment better and also opens up new revenue streams.

This session talks about
- What is network Slicing?
- How it is related to 5g?
- What will it do?
- Who is driving it?
- TCS Experimentation

vCPE and SD-WAN are hot new technologies in networking and are forecasted to drive explosive growth over the next several years. To help understand the opportunity and challenges these technologies represent, Intel is hosting a series of webinars to explore vCPE and SD-WAN in detail. In our first webinar, we will review the technologies, the potential disruption they represent, the deployment strategies and highlight some of the key issues and challenges being addressed. We are also inviting ADI Engineering, an Intel Network Builder partner, to review some of their new vCPE product reference designs, including a discussion on features, performance, market drivers and differentiation.

For next steps, I’ll send out a few meeting invites to review progress on the content development over the next couple of weeks. In addition, Renee Hunsaker, our host and coordinator for the webinar will send out a separate invite for a dry run and to work through logistics.

The Intel® Network Builders webinar program is a recurring webcast series in which ecosystem members and Intel technology experts delve into the technologies, topics, and issues facing the networking industry. Presenters delve into the network transformation taking place through the adoption of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) across telecommunication and enterprise organizations.

Intel Network Builders also offers a comprehensive NFV and SDN training program through the Intel Network Builders University, which offers a broad collection of online content for technical professionals in the network industry. Learn more at http://networkbuilders.intel.com/university.